Top 32 Powell Hubble Quotes
#1. Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#2. In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of know-how, technology and skill. The wealth of the industrialized nations is based much more on this kind of ownership than on natural resources.
Pope John Paul II
#3. Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.
John F. Kerry
#4. In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still
Ken Dignan
#5. Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#6. I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#7. I appreciate all of the unexpected places, internal and external, that my writing has taken me.
Terry Tempest Williams
#8. The skanky vamp biting for bucks on the dark end of state street is your ex boyfriend? William asked. The look on William's face implied he hoped I washed after interacting with Parrish
Tate Hallaway
#9. The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#10. The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#11. Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
Faina Ranevskaya
#13. I didn't want to think there was something out there that I just hadn't been able to see, hadn't been able to stop.
C.E. Dimond
#14. There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#19. A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#20. At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#21. Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#23. Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.
Kim Gordon
#24. In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.
Aldous Huxley
#25. All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#26. Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you haven't, but that's part of life.
Tracy Spiridakos
#27. You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Eric Roth
#28. We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#29. We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#30. Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#32. The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
Charles Dickens
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